Comment on The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster.

li10@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Lojcs@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  One of the biggest advantages of using Linux over windows is the lack of those endless seo sites while troubleshooting.

  source

  • RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    oh, they’re there and they’re just as useless. I’m the kind of person who refuses to remember things so I have been using google search to take me to the particular website which contains that one liner which I know fixes my issue. For the past 4 years or so, I started actually remembering a lot of things because it’s impossible to get to those pages through all the spam.

    A search for a specific question used to take me to a stack overflow page with that specific wording to which the answer was the specific command and a description of what it does. Now not only does google ignore half the search terms, but the first 5 results are crap websites with a long description which seems to be close to what i’m looking for only to prove to be useless 3 minutes in.

    source

    • Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I was once searching Native-American in quotes and was getting Indian Ocean as a result.

      source

      • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Gotta turn on “verbatim mode”

        source
• sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  …along with everything else. After all, if you reinstall everything from scratch the problem will maybe go away or you get too tired to go on

  source
• Cheskaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Particularly an issue when you’re googling an obscure software issue, you just get spammed with the same copy/paste “troubleshooting” steps. Which usually boil down to “reinstall this completely unrelated driver”.

  Just reading this caused a small spike of ice cold fury within my soul

  source